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SIPPO North Macedonia provided support and capacity development to the BSO Invest North Macedonia in organizing a national pavilion at the Pure Origin...

Since the first phase of the programme, the SIPPO team in Vietnam, together with its experts, has sought to work with BSOs in the sector “Value Added...

In the first half of 2022, SIPPO’s country team Peru and the international consultants contributed effectively to the capacity development of BSOs and...

SIPPO Morocco is marking the start of SIPPO Phase 2 (until 2025) with three main activities: Networking with women's cooperatives for regional product...

Biofach 2022, the World’s Leading Fair for Organic Food, was held in Nuremberg (Germany) at the end of July 2022. Among the almost 2300 exhibitors fro...

We need to know more! What are the financing needs for sustainable procurement of SMEs? That's why we're asking you for 15 minutes to answer the SIPPO...

The Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) in Peru, operated by Swisscontact, has successfully implemented the training process for the Biofach fair t...

The orientation tour of edible oil producers from Tunisia in Switzerland, which was organised by SIPPO Tunisia and two Tunisian BSOs at the beginning...

SIPPO presented itself with a stand at the Swiss Export Day 2022 in Basel. SIPPO promotes the export capabilities of business support organisations (B...

With the support of SIPPO Tunisia, Tunisian BSOs working with producers of Tunisian olive oil developed up a strong market positioning. This resulted...

The SIPPO Import Promotion Forum took place for the fifth time. Seven renowned speakers addressed the very topical issue of how SMEs can build sociall...

SIPPO’s Country Representative in South Africa supported H.E. Ambassador Dr Nicolas Brühl as part of his delegation in his recent official visit to Du...

SIPPO and Trade Switzerland are again organising the traditional SIPPO Import Promotion Forum on Thursday, 2 June 2022 from 4 pm. This year it will on...

This is excellent news from Switzerland! After winning a bronze medal last year, Tunisian olive oil was awarded a first gold medal to Olivko and three...

The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) of the Swiss Cooperation – SECO in Peru disseminates commercial activities and actively contributes to th...

The Tunisia export center CEPEX, a partner in the SIPPO programme, integrated itself excellently into the cosmetic sector by promoting the flagship pr...

The SIPPO programme has two new leaders: Clément Graf has taken over the role as Head of Programme from Fabienne-Alexia Müller, who is leavi...

CBI can look back on 50 years of successful development cooperation. This time was also partly shaped by the cooperation with SIPPO and IPD, in variou...

The pandemic has demanded a sudden shift to digital contacts at all public trade shows. Some fairs adapted extremely well to the new situation. They a...

The current World Expo in Dubai is dedicated to the three themes "opportunity, mobility and sustainability". Within these themes the World Expo wants...

Business Support Organizations (BSOs) from Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia and Albania were represented at A+A in Düsseldorf. In prep...

Before the pandemic, SIPPO’s BSO partners were alternately present at ANUGA in Cologne and SIAL in Paris with their national pavilions. After t...

SIPPO collaborates with Business Support organisation in 11 countries with the aim to structure forward-looking concepts and projects to increase the...

Last year in October SIPPO launched the Trade Promotion Academy (TPA). Over 400 people have registered so far, and over 130 certificates have been iss...

Together with the Swiss Start-up Fund, SIPPO had a stand at the swiss export day in Frauenfeld. At the trade fair, which was once again held as a face...

On 25 June 2021, SIPPO organized an exchange session on “Sustainable Development” between the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) UK and 5 Vie...

In the event of the Vietnam Furniture Matching week, SIPPO was honor to organize a webinar "Sourcing with Sustainability".

SIPPO expert - Ms. Juliane Lemcke - MSc in Wood Science and Technology had a broadcast on EU new regulations in furniture sourcing.

On 1 April 2021, SIPPO held a brainstorming session on marketing and communication strategy toward sustainability for Vietnamese BSOs.

How can exporters manage to stay connected to global markets despite the massive restrictions caused by the Covid 19 pandemic? What can be done to ens...

The current World Expo in Dubai is dedicated to the three themes "opportunity, mobility and sustainability". Within these themes the World Expo wants...

How can exporters manage to stay connected to global markets despite the massive restrictions caused by the Covid 19 pandemic? What can be done to ens...

Covid-19 has a massive impact on the economy. The pandemic is forcing us to reinvent matchmaking with customers and suppliers. Over the past year, SIP...

For the first time, a Tunisian olive oil has been awarded for its exceptional quality at the International Olive Oil Award in Zurich, Switzerland ZOOA...

As an adaptation to the new conditions due to the Covid crisis, the SIPPO programme continues to support its partners in Tunisia to open up new market...

The limitations of the Corona pandemic mean that international trade fairs are being organised in new ways, and therefore SIPPO supports its partner B...

What does the future hold for established textile fairs and communication in the fashion and textile industry? How are contacts developing in the B2B...

As a continuation of the work to develop a national strategy for the promotion of the dried tomato sector, the Groupement des Industries de Conserves...

Pandemic Covid-19 has changed the way people and organizations manage their business and operational. Digital marketing and virtual export promotion a...

TPA is one of e-knowledge platform which focus on export promotion program. This application is developed by SIPPO and collaborate with two European e...

Promoting the export of Tunisian olive oil on the Swiss market  and enhancing the value of local varieties with their specific organoleptic chara...

In alliance with PERUCAMARAS, the Import Promotion Program - SIPPO implemented the training workshops for the Peruvian Regional and Local Chambers of...

The Moroccan participation in the organic trade fair Biofach last year was a great success. This is why SIPPO and Morocco Foodex continued to support...

What we are currently experiencing, how we worked closely with the Textile Trade Association/Textile Cluster and Invest North Macedonia in the second...

On 16 December 2020, the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (VIETRADE) and the Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) jointly organized the Vietnam Expo...

SIPPO and FENIP organized, on November 30, 2020, a videoconference on the challenges of the sustainability of the Moroccan fish sector, for the benefi...

This e-learning platform developed for BSOs by top experts in the field of trade promotion, currently comprises 5 modules on core export promotion top...

Following the global crisis induced by the COVID and the subsequent emergency state around the globe, and due to the cancellation of trade fairs, the...

SIPPO organized a preparatory workshop for the 8th version of ProColombia's Colombia Nature Travel Mart, the most important business meeting in the to...

COVID-19 has been accelerating digital platform in business and training activity/workshop forcibly. Recently, Ministry of Trade (MOT) together with I...

On November 9, the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO), implemented by Swisscontact, held the Country 2020 Coordination Committee with its strategi...

With the aim of developing the concept of sustainability in the fisheries sector in Tunisia both in line with the national strategy for sustainable an...

As part of the strengthening of the partner BSOs, SIPPO Tunisia has organized an online training on B2B Event Organization Processes.

With the aim of developing the concept of sustainability in the fisheries sector in Tunisia both in line with the national strategy for sustainable an...

The Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) in support of the strategic allies ADEX (Association of Exporters) and PROMPERU held the closing meeting fo...

This meeting was the last of phase 1 of the program which will end on June 30, 2021. The start of the second phase is scheduled for July 1, 2021 for a...

Exchange and planning forum on sustainable development and promotion of the wood value chain

For Switzerland, cross-border trade flows are vital to its survival. Imports are just as crucial as the export which is mentioned more often. The majo...

Beginning of October, SIPPO launched its brand-new Trade Promotion Academy. This is an exciting e-learning platform that allows to continuously acquir...

PROMPERU supported by the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO), a program sponsored by the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), has publis...

SIPPO Morocco with its BSO ASMEX signed a partnership agreement with the Project for the Promotion of the Economy and Local Development (PEDEL) of GIZ...

A market study on three export products of the Philippines (Processed Food, Natural Ingredients and Natural Fiber&Textiles) aims at strengthening...

PROMPERU, one of the main Latin American Export Promotion and Tourism organizations, in its continuous role of promoting Peruvian exports and the Gene...

SIPPO SA partnered with the UNIDO implemented GQSP-SA project to facilitate virtual workshop sessions on 18 & 20 August 2020, for BSO partners, on...

PROMPERU, in alliance with the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) in Peru, is conducting a training process for its officials in order to strength...

The Ministry of Trade of the Republic Indonesia (MOT) has successfully conducted a virtual sustainability reporting workshop and a sustainability comp...

What is the profile of the sustainable tourist in the future? And what are post-COVID19-trend in Europe for the sustainable tourist sector? In a Webin...

The Commission for the Promotion of Peruvian Exports and Tourism (PROMPERÚ) with the support of the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) funded...

As part of Women’s Month in South Africa, SIPPO SA, participated in a women-to-women webinar on 11 August 2020 hosted by the BSO, SAEOPA, to celebrate...

On 28 July 2020, Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) facilitated a networking session between DTB (Germany) and VITAS to build up partnership for f...

SIPPO SA in collaboration with SIPPO Colombia, facilitated a virtual networking session between South African BSOs and ProColombia, to share best prac...

SIPPO Indonesia collaborates with GRI to conduct ToT trainings for BSOs to support them in Sustainability Reporting or sustainability company profile...

As part of the capacity building of BSOs in their trade promotion activities, SIPPO Maroc organized two online training workshops on 20 and 22 July 20...

In order to boost Colombian cocoa and chocolate exports and position it as one of the strategic sectors in the revival of the Colombian economy, FEDEC...

SIPPO SA facilitated a virtual roundtable meeting on 30 June 2020 for its BSO partners on the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, on the processed foods a...

Tunisian Canned Food Industries Group GICA, together with SIPPO programme, organized an online workshop on June 30th, 2020 about the development of Pr...

Business Support Organizations (BSOs) supported by SIPPO organized a virtual panel discussion with representatives of German companies and DTB –...

Business Support Organizations (BSOs) supported by SIPPO organized a virtual panel discussion with representatives of German companies and DTB –...

The SIPPO BSO partner, TIKZN, facilitated an informal Zoom meeting with participating companies on their export marketing plans, as part of the traini...

As part of the partner BSOs capacity building, SIPPO Tunisia has organized an online training on B2B Event Organization Processes.

As part of the strengthening of the partner BSOs, SIPPO Tunisia has organized an online training on B2B Event Organization Processes.

To implement meso-level approach and mandate, SIPPO has been collaborating with four Business Support Organizations (BSOs) since April 2017. With conc...

SIPPO Vietnam has joined hands with wood and textile BSOs in Vietnam in a series of webinars on the topic of export market outlook during the pandemic...

Macedonian start - ups and SMEs working in the field of ICT will provide support to companies working in the industries which are strongly affected by...

The SIPPO program, in collaboration with its partners APIA and the PAMPAT project, organized on March 10, 2020 a workshop at the APIA headquarters in...

As part of capacity building of partner BSOs, SIPPO Tunisia organized two days of training, on February 5th and 6th, 2020, on CRM solution "B2BTrace"...

Vietnam is the largest exporter of wood chips for pulp and paper. How to diversify into higher value added products?CLT and Glulam might be considered...

SIPPO virtual capacity building session with partner BSOs on BIOFACH 2020, post trade fair evaluation and follow-up.

SIPPO supports its partner BSO, TIKZN, with the implementation of its new programme for potential exporters in the Processed Foods and Natural Ingredi...

Albania came back to BioFach 2020 in great style! With such a rich offer of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), Albanian companies could not miss ou...

In December 2019, NTA with SIPPO support was planning to organize a round table on “Addressing burning sustainability issues” with a com...

In November 2019, SIPPO supported NTA in organizing the conference “Sustainable Development of Tourism, Challenges and Opportunities” at...

SIPPO supported Albanian Investment Development Agency to participate at A+A Dusseldorf, the most important work safety and security fair. Given the l...

Kick off meeting of The Technical Wood Working Group with 03 BSOs HAWA, BIFA, FPA and Laita Design – R&D center of HCMC University of Techn...

In order to strengthen the presence of regional governments at international tourism fairs, PROMPERU and SIPPO organized a training workshop for the R...

This first Moroccan participation of AMITH/AMDIE was organized through two distinct pavilions, one in the "Sourcing Zone" and the other in the "Blue Z...

The importance of having well developed CRM systems and practices in BSOs

The International Trade Center (ITC) jointly organized from 2 to 6 March 2020 with the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) and the World Textile an...

This is the 8th Moroccan participation in the “BIOFACH into Organic” fair which took place from 12 to 15 February 2020 in Nuremberg in G...

This is the 8th Moroccan participation in the “BIOFACH into Organic” fair which took place from 12 to 15 February 2020 in Nuremberg in G...

Within the framework of the 39th ANATO Tourist Showcase, we carried out the “Sustainable Tourism: The key for the Future of the Regions”...

FENIP, ASMEX and AMITH have been trained to become familiar with a B2Btrace tool that could help improve the performance of trade fair and matchmaking...

Biofach 2020: First official South African participation at the world’s largest organic food trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany

HAWA in collaboration with SIPPO Vietnam to implement a series of activities to promote the wood sector in Vietnam in order to build the country image...

Successful pre-fair Workshops organised by the dti and Wesgro for their co-exhibitors in preparation of Biofach trade fair supported by SIPPO South Af...

The SIPPO Global Meeting 2020: an event for joint planning, learning and connecting

The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) in the effort to facilitate and transfer knowledge to the BSOs in Peru, implemented a two days’ wo...

During 2019, SIPPO promoted synergies between ADEX and PROMPERU in the wood sector achieving important progress for the coordination and development o...

As part of institutional strengthen for its partner BSOs, SIPPO have conducted a training about the Business and Market Intelligence for benefit of 16...

SIPPO program has organized, from December 2sd to December 6th, 2019, a study tour of Food ingredient Europe trade fair and the International Market o...

For the fourth time in a row National Association for Incoming Tourism of Macedonia organized their annual corner stone event – the Marketplace...

HANDEL Schweiz published an article about SIPPO in issue 3/19 of the magazine "Wir handeln"

The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) in coordination with PERUCAMARAS and the Regional Chamber of Piura implemented a successful training to t...

From August to November 2019, SIPPO Peru implemented a capacity building activity with PROMPERU to develop capacities in exporters participating in AN...

Thanks to support from SIPPO’s experts, Tex-Giang could be present at A+A after having registered only at the last minute. They were selec...

On 13 Nov, in cooperation with experts from Vietrade, SIPPO organized an on-site training session for staff members from HAWA and VOAA (VOAA is a...

On 15 Nov, SIPPO delivered a short training programme for BIFA to prepare 3 BSO staff members and 9 staff members of 7 companies to join the...

Recent changes in global and national legislation regarding packaging management, will impact exporting companies. How to prepare adequately to ensure...

This year’s SIPPO Import Promotion Forum, held at the Fossil Europe Group Headquarters in Basel on 14th of November 2019, dealt with the questi...

A buyer mission to the Western Cape Region was organized and hosted by the BSO, Wesgro with support from SIPPO. 

Textile Trade Association – Textile Cluster, supported by SIPPO organized study tour at A+A trade fair for work and corporate wear aiming to ex...

Indonesia Light Wood Association (ILWA) and Ministry of Trade (MoT) which were supported by SIPPO successfully conducted Indonesia Lightwood Pavilion...

The Foreign Trade Chamber BiH www.komorabih.ba  together with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of RS www.komorars.ba and Association of texti...

Considering market research as initial step for creating effective export promotion, SIPPO supported the Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism t...

The annual Coordinating Committees of the SIPPO program held for the third time in Tunisia with the five partner BSOs. 

Ministry of Trade (MOT) together with Indonesia Light Wood Association (ILWA) which supported by SIPPO successfully conducted the 4th of Indonesia Lig...

Conxemar trade fair is consolidated as an essential instrument in uniting the frozen food sector on Spanish market and the rest of Europe. GIPP has su...

The 22nd Tunisian participation at ANUGA Trade Fair 2019, the world’s leading food fair, has scarred by a good cooperation and exceptional achi...

Anuga 2019: intense experience, brimming with business opportunities and new ideas

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) participated in the forum “Transforming the Tourism” with the presence of multiple stakeholders...

For the second consecutive year, Macedonian apparel producers bring their products and services closer to international buyers during Munich Fabric St...

SIPPO Indonesia just conducted a B2BTrace training session for Ministry of Trade (MOT) through Directorate General of National Export Development (DGN...

Through the support of Swiss Import Promotion Programme (#SIPPO), The National Federation of Seafood Processing and Valorization Industries (#FEN...

On 30 September and 1 October 2019, the Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) programme organized strategic sector-wide roundtables “BSOs &a...

October 1st, 2019 - SIPPO organized Albanian Country Coordination Committee meetings to discuss on achievements and work plan for 2020

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) together with four Business Support Organisations (BSOs) have successfully conducted the third Country Coordi...

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) recently supported Indonesia Essential oil Council (DAI) to hold a buying mission event in Bali on 28 Septemb...

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) in Peru has enrolled 10 Peruvian exporters that will get the state-of-the-art techniques in sales to use them...

This meeting was marked by the participation of SECO senior management, and Swisscontact in Switzerland and Morocco, the cooperation office of the Swi...

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) joined the Association of Exporters (ADEX) to develop a training program on negotiation skills for processed...

On September 19 and 20 of the current year, the Country Coordination Committee of SIPPO Colombia was held in the city of Bogotá with the purpose...

Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) is working with PROMPERU in developing capacities inside the institution and companies supported in Anuga tra...

On 12 and 13 September, SIPPO Morocco and the Moroccan Association of Moroccan Exporters (ASMEX) in collaboration with the German Technical Cooperatio...

The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) implemented the annual Country Coordination Committees with the participation of the State Secretariat fo...

The Munich Apparel Source 2019 Trade Fair took place from 3 to 5 September 2019. A Vietnam Country Pavilion was organised by the Vietnam Industry Agen...

Facilitation of strategic collaboration among BSOs in South Africa

SIPPO South Africa supported its BSO partners, the dti, TIKZN and Wesgro in preparation of Anuga 2019 trade fair. 

The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO) financed by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), supported PROMPERU in the development of a...

The Foreign Trade Chamber BiH www.komorabih.ba, in cooperation with the USAID/SIDA FARMA 2 project www.farmabih.ba, supported by SIPPO, organizes the...

KOLTIVA presented B2B Trace CRM system to Peruvian BSOs PERUCAMARAS and OCEX with the support of The Swiss Import Promotion Programme (SIPPO). This we...

Industria Peru is the main commercial platform in the manufacturing industry, in which international buyers and Peruvian export companies have the opp...

The opportunity to be better integratedinto the Sustainable Global market of Goods and Services

Last week the “Swiss Import Promotion Program” (SIPPO) kicked off their support to the Value-Added-Textile sector in Vietnam. 

As part of the 2nd Tunisian competition of Local products, SIPPO, in cooperation with its partner APIA and the PAMPAT project, held a seminar for the...

Skill building development on trade promotion program for Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) at Seafood Expo Global (SEG) 2019.

In May 2019, Promperu published the Annual Report on AgroExports Development 2018, which highlights the excellent performance of the sector with a gro...

SIPPO in collaboration with SwissEP – Swiss program that aims to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem in  North Macedonia, joint thei...

During the days of April 24-25-26, 2019, a training was organized by SIPPO with IPD collaboration in honor of Tunisian BSOs on the thematic of “...

The edition of the SEG in Brussels, which took place from 7 to 9 May 2019, was marked by a distinguished participation of Morocco, with 38 Moroccan ex...

The Research Center of Economy and Global Business (CIEN) of ADEX with support of the Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) successfully implemented...

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Familiarization trip was organized in Albania on the occasion of the new direct flight between Zurich and Tirana by Edelweiss with participation of 10...

ITB Berlin 2019 was a success for Albanian pavilion confirmed by most visitors as one of most interesting destination to discover.

February 13-16, Biofach 2019 edition started in Nuremberg, Germany, one of the biggest trade fairs on Bio productions in Europe.

South African BSOs agree on best practices and synergies for trade promotion.

The 30th edition of the InCosmetics Trade Fair in Paris, the most important stage of the personal care industry, finished successfully on April 4th 20...

From 6 to 9 March 2019, SIPPO Vietnam assisted SIPPO Indonesia to organize a selling mission combined with a study tour for the Indonesia Lightwood As...

In order to better assist our BSOs (FENIP-AMITH-ASMEX) to use the new watch tools, SIPPO organized this implementation workshop.

As part of the contribution of the SIPPO program to the internationalization of the sectoral fairs organized in MOROCCO, and during the Halieutis fair...

Vietnam International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair (VIFA) was held from March 6 to March 9 in HCMC’s District 7. It featured a record nu...

SIPPO team in Balkan supported organization of a joint study tour with BSOs and their member companies from different countries. Two partner BSOs, AID...

Informative Session on ITB Berlin 2019 was organized by the Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism in the Republic of North Macedonia on 26 Febru...

SIPPO prepared Business Support Organisations (BSOs) from South Africa and Albania - together with their companies - for a successful product promotio...

A strong kick-off for the programme’s second half time of its mandate phase 2017-2020, where partners from all European stakeholders joined for...

The National Association for Incoming Tourism of Macedonia staged its annual event on 5th and 6th December 2018 which aimed to increase business oppor...

With the largest pavilion of the show with a surface area of 72m2 hosted by AMITH, AMDIE and the Moroccan Denim Cluster, MOROCCO has successfully posi...

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), within the framework of the National Strategic Exporter Plan PENX 2025, carried out the presenta...

Nineteen companies and seven business support organziations from the Balkans and three from Tunisia participated in the especially for them designed S...

Selling Mission to Sweden from 12 – 16 November 2018 meets expections of BSOs and their participating firms

In October AIDA and SIPPO organized a workshop with around 60 participants from textile sector companies, experts of textile sector, academic professi...

SIPPO in collaboration with AIDA has organized a business mission in Albania to reactivate the value-added textile sector in export promotion. The aim...

In October, SIPPO and NTA (Albanian National Tourism Agency) have organized a workshop on sustainable tourism with stakeholders in the Swisscontact re...

The Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism in the Republic of Macedonia organized together with SIPPO, a working session for Macedonian tour oper...

The Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food fair, which took place at Paris Nord Villepinte from 21 to 25 October 2018, delivered on...

The Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food fair, which took place at Paris Nord Villepinte from 21 to 25 October 2018, delivered on...

The Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food fair, which took place from 21 - 25 October 2018 at Paris Nord Villepinte, delivered on b...

The Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food fair, which took place at Paris Nord Villepinte from 21 to 25 October 2018, delivered on...

The Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL) food fair, which took place at Paris Nord Villepinte from 21 to 25 October 2018, delivered on...

Markets in Northern Europe were honored at the 2018 edition of MOROCCO IN MODE Organized on 11 & 12 October in Marrakech by the AMITH. The strateg...

SIPPO has supported National Tourism Agency to prepare its co-exhibitor companies for participation at WTM London fair, taking place in 5-7 November 2...

The coordination committee of SIPPO held its second annual meeting in Casablanca on September 17, 2018. The meeting is marked with vibrant discussion...